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Before Jay Cutler pointed his van south toward his 10th NFL training camp Wednesday, his to-do list included a haircut. For every team, the start of camp is an occasion to embrace the future by measuring distance gained from the past season. And for a Bears team undone by so many deficiencies in 2014, taking stock is a complex process. In the opening days of camp, without any fresh stats to calculate progress by the new regime, focus centered on intangibles. A main topic was leadership — a factor that worked against the Bears a year ago, by many player and coach accounts. Sitting in the stylist's chair, the issue resonated with the 32-year-old quarterback. "I had a...

There's a common thread that runs through most winning Dallas Cowboys teams, a hallmark of all that success.
A lone star in the offensive backfield.
Whether it was Tony Dorsett, Herschel Walker, Emmitt Smith, or most recently DeMarco Murray, the...

If we learned anything about NFL running backs this off-season, it's that they are highly replaceable.
That's how franchises seem to view them, at least, with the Dallas Cowboys allowing their single-season rushing leader, DeMarco Murray, to slip away to...

Darren McFadden opened Dallas Cowboys training camp Thursday with an unfamiliar team… and in a painfully familiar way.
The oft-injured running back – now with the Cowboys after spending his first seven seasons with the Oakland Raiders – is hobbled again,...

A day after the NFL and its players association filed separate lawsuits in different states over the Tom Brady suspension, a U.S. District Court judge in Minnesota ordered the two cases to be conjoined in New York.
That can be considered a small...

As expected, the NFL Players Assn. filed an appeal on behalf of Tom Brady on Wednesday, a day after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell upheld the four-game suspension of the New England Patriots quarterback.
The appeal was filed in U.S. District Court of...

Former USC All-American Leonard Williams will have a chance to compete for a starting role when the New York Jets start training camp on Thursday at the team’s training facility in Florham Park, N.J.
“Reporting for camp tomorrow and couldn't be more...

In the wake of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell upholding his four-game suspension of New England’s Tom Brady, the Patriots opened training camp Wednesday with a Bill Belichick news conference. Predictably, the comments from the coach were comically...

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady defended himself in a lengthy post to Facebook on Wednesday morning, saying he was "very disappointed" with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's decision to uphold his four-game suspension.
Brady...

The Cleveland Browns selected former USC tight end Randall Telfer and linebacker Hayes Pullard in the NFL draft in May, but only Pullard is expected to participate in training camp.
The Browns listed Telfer, a sixth-round pick, on the active/non-football...

San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer gave an upbeat assessment Tuesday after a three-hour meeting with an NFL executive about the civic effort to build a new stadium to keep the Chargers from leaving for Carson.
“The game isn’t over,” Faulconer said.
City...

For Jen Welter, the most appealing part of joining the Arizona Cardinals' coaching staff is not that she's an NFL pioneer — the first female coach in league history — but that she's treated like an equal.
That hasn't always been the case.
When she...

It turns out, Tom Brady's cellphone wasn't the only thing that was destroyed.
So, too, was any remaining shard of belief in his competitive integrity, every last piece blown to smithereens with 10,000 text messages and one giant lie.
Does anybody...

In any other year, Tom Brady would be focused on the start of training camp.
Now, the star New England Patriots quarterback has his eye on federal court.
Setting the stage for a legal battle royal, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Tuesday upheld...

Jen Welter knew the Arizona Cardinals were the place for her when, while attending an off-season practice in June, she had a memorable conversation with Coach Bruce Arians.
He didn’t want to talk about the novelty of her wanting to be a...

Le'Veon Bell will miss only the first two games of the season after the NFL reduced his punishment under the league's policy for substance abuse.
Bell was handed a three-game suspension in April. He was charged with marijuana possession and DUI...

Eleven-year NFL veteran Karlos Dansby, currently of the Cleveland Browns, has put his home in Southwest Ranches, Fla., on the market for $4.39 million.
Dansby, who played for the Miami Dolphins from 2010-2012, bought the 12,300-square-foot house from...

Jen Welter will help coach Arizona Cardinals inside linebackers this summer -- and she'll be making history in the process.
The Cardinals announced Monday they have added Welter to their staff as a coaching intern during training camp and preseason. It...

Former USC tailback Javorius Allen will compete to back up eight-year NFL veteran Justin Forsett when the Baltimore Ravens open training camp Thursday at their training facility in Owings Mills, Md.
Allen, whom the Ravens picked in the fourth round of...